"Squeak, long time no see!" After the two boats filled with ratmen docked on the temporary trestle, Fatina was the first to jump off the boat and hugged Lawrence who greeted him on the trestle. "I
After receiving your telegram, I rushed here with my companions. After all, I rented these two boats from the tribesmen on this side of the Star Sea. If you rent them for one more day, you will have to pay for one more day."
"At worst, I'll put the money in advance. After all, you're here to help me, and I can't let you suffer. But sailing at night -" Lawrence smiled before he finished speaking. He remembered that rat people are born with dark vision, and at night
For them, sailing is no different than during the day, and may even feel more comfortable.
"It's no problem to sail at night. Among the land races in the sea, our night sailing ability is one of the best." Fatina raised her head proudly and said. "By the way, Saifei and her will help you recruit
The group of people who arrived can only arrive at noon tomorrow, because they rented a boat from you humans, and it is from the Federation. So they don’t dare to sail in this place at night along the unfamiliar coastline."
"How many people are you here this time?" Looking at the ratmen jumping off the deck, Lawrence looked a little surprised, because Fatina's email to her said that her clan has more than 160 people, but now it seems that at least
Around 800 people.
"827." Fatina shrugged and said, "Didn't you say before that as long as the rat people are willing to come, they will give residents the right to live there? So after telling the Presbyterian Council about your promise, the Presbyterian Council directly gave away more than half of this year's new students.
The Skaven clan threw it over."
"Okay, as long as you are willing. After all, it's not that safe here." Lawrence shrugged and said. He was not worried about the rat people turning back to the main visitors, because the rat people like the dark and comfortable tunnel environment, and their economy is based on production.
Various metal products are mainly exchanged with other civilized races and planted with various fungi. They have no intersection with the human living environment, but can form a complementary and co-prosperous relationship.
"Don't worry, those goblins will never be our opponents." Fatina spread her hands and said, "The cave is our home court, not to mention that the Great Horned Rat Priest came with us this time. In the Great Horned Rat
Under the shining light, no creature can fight with us rat-men in the tunnel and achieve final victory."
"If so, that would be great." Lawrence nodded and then made a request. "We are building a fortified camp. Can you come and help?"
"Of course it's no problem." Fatina nodded to Lawrence and then squeaked to the rat people behind her. Soon the rat people took down various tools from the ship under the leadership of some captains.
The detachment entered the construction site. With the help of these rat men who were good at construction, the construction speed of the station was greatly accelerated.
So at around 9:00 in the evening, a civil structure fortress that could accommodate most people was built around the hill on the seaside. This also meant that Lawrence and the others' plan for the first day of landing was perfectly completed.
Within the area surrounded by the civil structure city wall, everyone quickly set up tents and arranged everyone's accommodation. Because they were tired after a busy day, everyone went to rest after leaving the sentinels to keep watch.
After a simple breakfast the next morning, Lawrence and his retainers gathered in the only wooden house on the hillside to discuss the next plan. That was to eliminate the goblins gathered on this reserved land.
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"We will face more than 30,000 goblins on this land." Nora, who didn't sleep last night and went out for reconnaissance in the dark, floated up from her seat. "After we landed and annihilated one
After the small goblin tribe, the largest local goblin tribe alliance has begun to summon their warriors to push us into the sea."
"After all, historically, goblins have a very strong sense of territory. So when they gather in sufficient numbers, they will definitely attack us and try to eliminate us or drive us away. So I think we should do it now.
Be prepared for battle, they won't leave us much time."
"You are right." Lawrence nodded at her and said seriously to the retainers sitting on both sides of the long table. "We must now be prepared to face the siege of tens of thousands of goblins. If there are no problems with the previous records
If so, we will face the goblin frenzy in five days at the minimum and ten days at the maximum."
"It shouldn't be a big problem." Joseph Knight said that as the current supreme commander of the armed forces, he is quite confident in his own combat preparations. "As long as you give me three days, we can build a defense that can at least resist
It’s a defensive position for the 30,000 goblin tribe’s armed forces.”
"That's good." Lawrence nodded, because according to his previous three inquiries about the reclamation records of the island's very good open space near the sea, the colonists did not encounter the first wave of goblins in the process of blocking and defeating them.
How difficult it was, after all, under the attack of modern firepower, the numerical advantage that the goblins were proud of was severely weakened.
"If we can keep this group of goblins here as much as possible this time, then we will gain a valuable period of development time." Lawrence looked at everyone present and said, "I think everyone should have checked the information.
I know that it is impossible to support 30,000 to 40,000 young and middle-aged goblins who can fight just by relying on this seaside plain, which is slightly barren for the goblins. Therefore, these goblins should also include those near this small seaside plain.
The mobile power of all the goblin tribes in this vast tract of primeval jungle.”
"But what those goblins are best at is scattering and running away." Deputy Butler Owen, who had military experience, stood up and said helplessly. "We have too few people. If we want to rely on fortifications and terrain, we can't escape."
Defeating those goblins is not difficult, but it is a bit difficult to kill as many of them as possible before they scatter and escape into the jungle or caves."
As he spoke, Deputy Butler Owen took out a notebook, then opened it and pointed to the table he had previously recorded. "In this land, the first battle between humans and goblins was more than 300 years ago. At that time, a total of
More than 80,000 goblins were defeated by humans with simple bastions and gunpowder weapons, but in the end they only killed about 17,000 goblins on the battlefield."
"The second time was 120 years ago. Humanity went from the era of mixed use of hot and cold weapons to the era of flintlocks. It was also a defensive counterattack. In the end, about 70,000 goblins who came to attack still ran past about 50,000.
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"The third and last time was 30 years ago. The Duke at that time purchased the most advanced rifled guns and hired a large number of extraordinary people. As a result, 50,000 goblins finally returned with more than 10,000. So for us,
The difficulty is not how to defeat the invading group of goblins, but how to eliminate them as much as possible."
"This is indeed a problem." Steward Bayer frowned and thought for a moment before saying. "Can't the cavalry pursue? I remember that in wars, cavalry usually pursues at the last moment."
"Butler Bayer, most of the time the cavalry pursuit is right." Deputy Butler Irving retorted. "But the biggest problem for us now is that although this land is a plain, it is covered with all kinds of
Trees. Although the previous three attacks have made this place no longer a dense tropical rain forest, the vegetation that has grown in the past 30 years is enough to block the advancement of our cavalry."
"Rainforest, damn rainforest." Steward Bayer suddenly leaned back in his chair and started tapping the table with his right knuckles. "It seems there is no time to clear out much space now."
"I have prepared some things here," Lawrence said. "According to the plan, those things will be delivered tomorrow. If they are as I imagined, they should be able to solve part of the problem."